We
still haven't gotten a firm handle on the government's monster $1
trillion budget deficit -- the fifth one in a row for President Obama
who never met a spending bill he didn't like. We've been borrowing that
much or more every year in order to pay the bills for national security,
entitlements, food stamps, unemployment benefits and hundreds of other
programs both large and small. And, we're worried about gay marriage?

The
fact is that the longer this issue is "debated and discussed" the more
irrelevant the old people in the Republican party become and the more
elections they lose. Sorry guys but the intelligent world is passing
your fantasy cult world byâ¦

Meanwhile, a guest column by Shelley Fox-Loken, a former Oregon corrections officer, had readers reacting to her call for the legalization of marijuana.

(The author) has a naive view of things. Regulating alcohol, and
taxing it, has certainly done very little to solve the DUI problem. I'm
sure that if marijuana were legalized, taxed and regulated, the results
wouldn't be much different.

Thanks for publishing this column.
Too often we assume that law enforcement officers support every law
they're charged to enforce. In this case, some of them have come to
realize that our drug laws actually make us less safe.